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New: What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect
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October 2, 2009 - January 24, 2010
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Enter the world of artist William T. Wiley (b. 1937), who has created a distinctive body of work during a 50-year career that addresses critical issues of our time. Art, politics, war, global warming, foolishness, ambition, hypocrisy, and irony are summoned by Wiley's fertile imagination and recorded in the personal vocabulary of symbols, puns, and images that fill his objects. His wit and sense of the absurd make his art accessible to all with multiple layers of meaning revealed through careful examination. This retrospective, which features 88 works from the 1960s to the present, is the first full-scale look at Wiley's long career and explores important themes and ideas expressed in his work. His work ranges from traditional drawing, watercolor, acrylic painting, sculpture, and printmaking to performances, constructions of assorted materials, and, more recently, printed pins, tapestries, and a pinball machine. Many artworks in the exhibition are on public display for the first time, and the installation includes several of Wiley's avant-garde films of the 1970s, which are rarely screened. Catalogue: $65 (cloth); $39.95 (paper) See December 2009 Smithsonian magazine, p. 26
Web: americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2009/wiley/
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New: Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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June 19, 2009 - January 10, 2010
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On view are watercolors, pastels, and drawings from the 1920s to the 1960s to celebrate the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper. The works on view reveal the central importance of works on paper for American artists, both as studies for creations in other media and as finished works of art. Artists represented include such masters as Stuart Davis, Sam Francis, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Grant Wood, and Andrew Wyeth.
Web: americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2009/gm2/
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New: Thomas Moran Landscapes
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May 8, 2009 - Permanent
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On view are three large landscape paintings by Thomas Moran, on long-term loan from the U.S. Department of the Interior: The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1872), The Chasm of the Colorado (1873-1874), and The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1893-1901), along with a smaller Moran painting.
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American Art through 1940
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This exhibition links artworks to major moments in America's past in nine thematic sections in 31 galleries. The introductory area features Frederic Auguste Bartholdi's model for the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of America as a place welcoming to all immigrants whose ingenuity and creativity plays a key role throughout America's art.
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These introductory galleries feature paintings by Edward Hopper, 19th- and 20th-century landscapes from across the United States that convey a sense of place and the defining role of land in the American imagination, and 56 photographs from Lee Friedlander's series "The American Monument" (1963-2001) -- a new acquisition -- that offer his sometimes ironic, sometimes elegiac record of outdoor sculptures across the country.
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Commissioned by the museum, David Beck created MVSEVM, an exquisitely crafted world in miniature; the work reflects the neoclassical architecture of the building, from the 1840s when it was the U.S. Patent Office to the present day.
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Luce Foundation Center for American Art
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The Luce Foundation Center for American Art is the first visible art storage and study center in Washington that showcases more than 3,300 artworks from the museum's permanent collection: paintings densely hung on screens; sculptures, contemporary crafts, and art objects arranged on shelves; and portrait miniatures, bronze medals, and contemporary jewelry in drawers that slide open with the touch of a button. The space allows the museum to display five times the number of works on public view.
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Lunder Conservation Center
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- Permanent
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The Lunder Conservation Center -- shared with the National Portrait Gallery -- is the first facility that provides a unique opportunity for the public to view through glass walls conservators at work in several labs examining, treating, and preserving art.
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Modern and Contemporary Art
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Located in the Lincoln Gallery with soaring arches, this exhibition features modern and contemporary art.
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Last update: December 8, 2009, 19:31
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